You know, when we lost the superbowl, the same thing happened to us. Guys like Marquand Manuel and Andre Dyson left. Joe Jurevicious. Guys like that. Obviously Hutch was a big one, but losing all those role-players really hurt us, and we were never the same. It took complete roster turnover to make us into what we are now - the single greatest team that has ever been assembled in the history of the NFL.

Football is not a matter of life and death. It's much more important than that. ~ Bill Shankley

Add them up and you start getting an idea of where the niners are getting all these compensatory picks from. They did the same thing last season letting free agency pick up some of their "stars." (6 losses to free agency) while they pick up some stopgaps while they build up their draft picks.